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Women's Quota in listed companies having an effect: CPB

The women’s quota for supervisory boards of listed companies in the Netherlands is having an effect. It states that at least one-third of the members of listed companies’ supervisory boards must be women, and companies must make appointments aimed at achieving this quota. Before the law was announced, less than 35 percent of listed companies had 33 percent women on …

More women in high positions at Dutch companies; Boards of Directors lagging behind

The share of women in top positions of large Dutch companies increased between 2020 and 2022, but the number of women on Boards of Directors is not growing fast enough, according to the Social and Economic Council. In 2022, Dutch companies’ Boards of Directors - the executives handling the day-to-day management of a business - consisted of 14.7 percent women, …

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New EU quota for women in top positions more ambitions than Dutch one

The European Parliament approved a new quota for women in top positions on Tuesday that is somewhat more ambitious than the pre-existing quota in the Netherlands. From 2026, 40 percent of large European companies’ supervisory boards must consist of women. The Dutch quota, which took effect at the start of this year, states that one-third of large companies’ supervisory boards …

More women than men appointed to supervisory boards for the first time

Dutch listed companies have for the first time appointed more women than men as supervisory directors. At the 89 listed Dutch companies, the percentage of female supervisory directors rose this year from 33 percent to 38 percent. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the legal quota of at least one third woman and at least one third men on the supervisory board …

A new law has been in force since the beginning of 2022, stipulating there must be a “balanced composition” of men and women on supervisory boards. The VEB analyzed meeting agendas of AEX companies to assess progress in the planned changes of Executive and Supervisory Boards after the annual investor meeting and made three major observations. First, they found the …